Guatemala's top prosecutor office: President Otto Perez should resign

Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina

Guatemala City - Arab Today

Guatemala's top prosecutor's office Wednesday urged President Otto Perez to resign due to corruption charges against him, to keep the country stable amid widespread demonstrations against him.

The office of the Prosecutor General of the Nation, "recommends that the constitutional president of the Republic of Guatemala offer his resignation to stave off the inability to govern that national instability could cause," said a statement from the office, which acts as representative of the state in legal affairs.